Talk:Larry Flynt

the poorest county...
Larry Flynt "claimed Magoffin County was the poorest county in the nation during the Great Depression." who cares. is it true, that's the important point. He grew up poor, that isn't enhanced by his claim. It might be enhanced by evidence that that country was very poor, but this line is silly. chris — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.34.49.193 (talk) 19:45, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

since the us was at peace?
this line is utterly bizarre: "Since the United States was at peace, the Army decided to honorably discharge Flynt." does anyone seriously believe that the US government looked around, found itself at peace, and said, "well, larry, looks like we don't need you after all." It was the cold war. At any rate, at best this sentence is vague. he was discharged. before fulfilling his term? was there at that time a massive discharge of military because of downsizing? if so, that's the reason, not because larry in particular was no longer needed.... chris — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.34.49.193 (talk) 19:48, 8 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I am not an expert but that looks a bit bizarre to me, too. Maybe he was due for a dishonorable discharge but threatened to say what he knew about some superiors .... something like that. Or he may have offered to work for an information service if he was discharged early. Flimsy reasons fuel speculation.


 * I saw the docu "JFK Jr" last night, which said that JFK Jr was invited to the White House Press dinner (when he owned the magazine George) and insisted to invite Flynt as his guest. They said that JFK Jr encouraged Flynt to undig 'stuff' about Republicans who'd then let go of Bill Clinton's impeachment. Just reporting, worth knowing. 2001:8003:A037:8C00:4CDE:BA20:6785:200 (talk) 02:15, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

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== Flynt said he had bipolar disorder. Springfield Hospital Center psychiatric hospital said, his psychiatrist Saul Niedorf testified, and the Washington Post reported he had bipolar manic-depressive illness/disorder. ==

The present fragment, "Flynt said he had bipolar disorder," is presented as a factoid, reported only as a self-referential personal claim extracted from an interview. There is no relation drawn between that claim and any relevant facts or history.

If the claim is baseless, it seems hardly worth the while to include.

If the claim correlates with any relevant factual history, it seems trivializing for them to be excluded.

Did Larry Flynt have bipolar disorder?

And if he did, is there any significant relation between that and the existent content included in the entry?

I would say the answer to both questions is, yes.

I can't really suggest how to reformat the entry to adequately state as much without overemphasizing it either.

I can only suggest that the existing citation be used to support whatever is stated concerning the facts about and relevance of bipolar disorder in the Larry Flynt entry.

That reporting can be easily drawn from two resources, with highlight quotations included below.

Excerpts from the Testimony of Saul Niedorf

December 6, 1984

"Q: Now, Dr. Niedorf, has Larry Flynt been a patient of yours?

A: Yes, he has.

Q: When did you first see Larry Flynt?

A: All right, I was asked to see him by his brother in November of 1983, and I saw him, I think, for a total of eight (8) or nine (9) hours in November, and the first day of December. And then, he went into prison as a result of the behaviors that I believed were a product of his mental illness, and he stayed in the mental hospital, or the medical center of the Springfield Institution, where he was confirmed and -- the same diagnosis that I had felt he had, bipolar illness, which is the current phrase used for manic depressive disorder.

And, they, they stated that he had this illness. And then he went into another institution, also a medical-psychiatric institution -- continued in Butner, North Carolina. When he finally got out in the summer of this year, later that summer I was contacted again. By this time, he had changed totally in his mental condition. He was no longer in the manic phase of his manic depressive disorder. He had entered into the depressive phase.

Q: All right, Dr. Niedorf, let's go back now to November of 1983, when you first -- when Larry Flynt first became your patient. Do you have that in mind?

A: Yes, I do.

Q: All right. Did you conduct an examination and an evaluation of him at that point?

A: Yes, I did.

Q: Could you tell us, just in summary fashion, what you did?

A: Well, ah, it was the first time in a long time that I had made a house call, because my office has thirty-eight (38) steep steps. And it's hard to get up there, and it's -- so I made a home visit. And Mr. Flynt, at that point, I guess, very typical behavior for him, had me conduct the interview for him in his bathroom. Him sitting on the comode.

And after two and a half hours I had come to the conclusion that he was a very ill man, and that his illness, as -- on the basis of my mental status examination, had a good many of the elements of mania -- of manic depressive or bipolar illness."

"the mental hospital, or the medical center of the Springfield Institution," links here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Hospital_Center

Flynt Says Deposition Was That of a Sick Man

By Mary Battiata December 7, 1984

"Saul Niedorf, a California psychiatrist who has been treating Flynt for more than a year, went further. Niedorf testified today that Flynt suffers from a chronic manic-depressive disorder. He said that the tape, in which Flynt claims among other things to have the entire FBI working for him and to have proof of Falwell's drunkenness and incestuous relationships, should be viewed as the ravings of a sick man.

Niedorf said that Flynt's numerous and outrageous confrontations with judges are the classic manifestations of the manic phase, in which the individual has little or no control over himself and often says and does things not in his own best interest.

'He's a wonderful storyteller, but he's a very ill man,' Niedorf said after court adjourned for the day. 'And he was crazier than a loon during that deposition.'"